Let’s start with a chart to understand the dire fiscal situation we are in as a nation. Figure 1. Federal Debt Held by the Public as a Share of Gross Domestic Product, 1940-2054 You’re looking at how ...

An administration and Congress focused on government efficiency may want to tackle the student loan nonpayment crisis before it is too late.

Here in the DOGE era, the specter of inefficient bureaucracy haunts many government agencies. Yet the Social Security Administration offers a surprising counternarrative—at least in parts. As civil ...

US Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been directed "to facilitate the closure" of her own department — well, what’s left of it. The Trump administration's vow to essentially eliminate it appears ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order headlined “stopping waste, fraud, and abuse by eliminating information silos.” The intent is “eliminating bureaucratic duplication and inefficiency ...

A scholarly debate over the meaning of the First Amendment’s Press Clause could influence the Associated Press’s battle against the Trump administration for access to the Oval Office and Air Force One ...